A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

(US, archaic) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

Origin

From Spanishhamaca, from Taino. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”

Sentence Examples

Relaxation Gifts: Retirement is an era of relaxation and gifts such as a hammock, pillow, reclining deck chair, luxury robe, slippers or spa treatments help new retirees indulge right from the onset of their retirement.

The hammock was universal in the tropics, and chairs of wood or stone.

Sometimes we sat in the hammock, and teacher read to me.

We sat in the hammock; but there was no rest for the weary there.

Danh-gbi has numerous wives, who until 1857 took part in a public procession from which the profane crowd was excluded; a python was carried round the town in a hammock, perhaps as a ceremony for the expulsion of evils.